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unˈsaid, ppl. a.
[OE. unsǽd (un-1 8 b), = NFris. unsad, MDu. ongeseit, Du. ongezegd, MLG. ungesegget, -gesecht, MHG. ungesaget, -geseit (G. ungesagt), ON. úsagðr (Sw. osagd, (M)Da. usagt, Norw. usagd).]
Not said or uttered.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 466 Eac þæs dæᵹes godspel is swiðe earfoðe læwedum mannum to understandenne..; i we hit lætað unsæd. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 234 Theodera þane cane hyr pray þat scho wald tel hyr..& lef vnsad til hyr richt nocht. c1425Cast. Persev. 693 in Macro Plays 98 Þer-fore I am mad massenger..þorwe all þe world..vnsayd sawys for to seye. c1440Alph. Tales 324, I hafe lefte þe laste colett vnsaid. c1450Merlin x. 143 Merlyn..tolde hym alle these thynges, that nought be lefte vn-seide. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 345/2 He held..that al diuine seruice may be left vnsaied without ani sinne. 1593Sidney's Arcadia v. (1922) II. 192 Leaving nothing unsaide which a filthy minde can imagine. 1609Donne Elegie Mrs. Boulstred 1 Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee What ere hath slip'd, that might diminish thee. 1699Bentley Phal. 46 This was..a thing unsaid before. 1730Swift Poems, Traulus ii. 20 He..Talks whate'er comes in his head; Wishes it were all unsaid. 1805Scott Last Minstr. v. xxvii, Half his tale he left unsaid. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxvi, You leave me under the weight of an accusation which, after all, is unsaid. 1889Walpole Life Ld. J. Russell II. 266 Forced, therefore, to leave unsaid the words..necessary for his own defence. |